From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: propagating replica identity to partitions
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 10:50:31 +0100
Message-ID: <1d8cb708-90c9-8839-e30d-bc28747f04a3@2ndquadrant.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190328164633.GA22571@alvherre.pgsql>
References: <20190328164633.GA22571@alvherre.pgsql>
On 2019-03-28 17:46, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Thanks, Michael and Peter, for responding; however there is a second
> part to the question, which is "should I change the recursivity of
> REPLICA IDENTITY, while not simultaneously changing the recusivity of
> the TABLESPACE and OWNER TO forms of ALTER TABLE?"
>
> I think everyone agrees that REPLICA IDENTITY should be changed. The
> question is whether it's bad behavior from my part to change it
> separately from changing every other non-currently-recursive form.
If this were new functionality, I would tend to think that ALTER TABLE
should by default recurse for everything. I don't know the history of
why it is not done for some things. It might be a mistake, just like
the replica identity case apparently is.
--
Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
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